Getting back into US modelling............again

[TravisM]

After a somewhat 10 year hiatus, I've decided to dabble in a US layout after going to the Sleaford MRC exhibition yesterday and picking up a Atlas ATSF U23B in yellow warbonnet for a ridiculous low price.  If I build a layout, it's going to be based on the Santa Fe, in 1980, west Kansas, where at the time, U23B's, GP38's and GP39-2's ruled local freight's on both the main and branch lines.  I've decided on this location and date because that was the year I first went back to the US since 1964, to visit relative's in Kansas.

 

The loco I bought was a Atlas 8691 GE U23B in ATSF yellow warbonnet and numbered 6310.  I assume due to it’s age, the decoder has to be hard wired, but does anyone know if it can be sound fitted?  If so, can anyone suggest a suitable decoder, speaker and sound file?

 

 

Edited June 5, 2022 by jools1959
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